This is an easy potato spring onion curry (aloo hara pyaz sabzi) as it takes minutes to prepare. All you need is to chop potato and spring onion. Peel some garlic and minced it and slice some green chilies. That’s it. Combine it with Indian spices and voila the delicious potato spring onion curry is ready.

As this is a dry potato spring onion curry, I often combine it with any Indian dal like mix dal fry or gujarati dal. It goes really well with hot phulkas.

Spring onions also known as Scallion or hara pyaz has many health benefits. Not only it reduces the blood cholestrol levels but also reduce the rish of coronary heart disease. The vitamin C in this vegetable also boost the immunity. Check out some other healthy spring onion recipes on this website: sev pyaz ki sabzi and roasted tomato & spring onion curry.

So combining spring onion with carbohyderate rich potatoes is great complete healthy meal. And serving it with protien rich Indian daal makes it even healthier.

Recipe of Potato Spring Onion Curry (Aloo Hara Pyaz Sabzi)

We need very few ingredients to make this delicious curry. First wash the potatoes and peel off the skin. Then dice them nicely as shown in below picture. Also wash the sprin onion (scallion) and chop both green and onion part. We will cook them separately so separate out greens from onion.

Also finely chop a green chili and finely chop garlic.

In a non-stick pan heat a tbsp of oil and add cumin seeds (jeera) and asafoetida (hing).

Once the cumin seeds turns brown add chopped garlic and saute for few seconds till the garlic is cooked.

Now add chopped green chili to the garlic and saute for few more seconds. The aroma of garlic is just amazing at this point. 🙂

Its time to add chopped onion. Just add onion part of scallions and combine it with green chili and garlic so that it absorbs their flavors.

Saute the onion for a minute till they are semi cooked and becomes translucent.

Now throw in the chopped potatoes in the pan. Mix well with the ingredients. Add salt to taste at this point and cook the potatoes for a minute.

Add all the spices now. Turmeric powder (haldi), red chili powder and coriander powder (dhaniya). Just mix everything and let the potato get nicely coated with spices. Cook for another minute on medium flame. Occasionally stir the potatoes as it tends to stick to bottom.

Once the potatoes are almost about to cook. Add the green part of spring onion to the curry now and mix again. Cook on high flame for a minute while the lid is open.

Do not over cook the greens. Spring onion and potato curry is now ready.

Serve this potato spring onion curry (aloo hara pyaz sabzi) with any Indian dal like mix dal fry and phulkas.